HC Deb 22 March 1929 vol 226 cc1982-3W
Mr. DAY

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total number of blind persons in England and Wales who were in receipt of blind old age pensions, giving their respective ages, as at the last convenient date?

Mr. SAMUEL

The total number of persons in receipt of pensions under the Blind Persons Act, 1920, was stated in the reply given by the Minister of Health to the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Sir W. Preston) on 5th February. Statistics of the age of blind pensioners are not available.